Sentences with phrase «local outbreaks»

And after about two weeks go by (or sooner), experts suggest we might see additional local outbreaks.

And the telephone calls poured in: calls of increasing daily frustration, anger at local injustices, descriptions of the conditions of loved ones in named local hospitals, fresh examples of local official lies, accounts of local outbreaks of protest.

«Our research shows that focusing surveillance on viruses in bats, rodents and non-human primates (a «SMART surveillance approach), and understanding what's disrupting these species» ecology is the best strategy to predict and prevent local outbreaks and pandemic disease,» Daszak continued.

«Effectiveness of routine Tdap booster wanes in adolescents: Findings suggest that a targeted round of vaccination among young people should instead be considered to limit local outbreaks of whooping cough.»

Authorities have culled more than 175,000 birds this winter to stamp out local outbreaks of H7N9 and other avian flu strains.

The continental United States is also experiencing its first - ever local outbreak of Zika, in a one - square - mile Miami neighborhood called Wynwood.

The WSVMA is particularly informative about local outbreaks of diseases.

Noting that approximately half of all pregnancies are unplanned, he said reducing access to birth control could increase the number of unintended pregnancies among women exposed to Zika through travel, sexual contact, or the new local outbreak.

All too often have I seen local outbreaks of parvovirus in puppies who have been vaccinated by their owner with a vaccine purchased at a local agricultural and livestock supply store.

The Gomez Law Firm have experience representing the victims of national and local outbreaks of tainted food.

«Every time an imported case comes, you're rolling that dice in terms of a local outbreak occurring,» David Pigott, a global health expert at the University of Washington, told Business Insider Insider in August when the virus started circulating on the US mainland.

Only two local outbreaks are known to date in Europe, in Athens in 1927 and in Madeira 2012.

«Because Tdap provides reasonable short - term protection, it may contain whooping cough more effectively if it is administered to adolescents in anticipation of a local outbreak rather than on a routine basis at age 11 or 12.»

As Zika becomes more widespread, the risk grows that an American traveler could bring it back to the U.S. and fuel a local outbreak or even — although much less likely — that infected mosquitoes may make their way overland to the U.S.. For his part, the infected tourist likens his experience with Zika to a «tough flu that kicks your ass, makes your muscles sore and Advil barely made a dent.»

Now the country faces new challenges: rebuilding a shattered health care system, tamping down local outbreaks, and looking for ways to drive the number of new cases to zero.

State Rep. Dennis Baxley, one of the state legislators who introduced the bill that would cut Planned Parenthood funding, said he still supports the new law even after the local outbreak in North Miami.

Except for the 15 people infected in the local outbreak, most cases of Zika in Florida are related to travel out of the state, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.